by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Feb 28, 2008 | Opinion
I was listening to NPR the other day and learned of a prayer movement called Light the Highway that runs prayer vigils along Interstate 35 from Texas to Minnesota. The group asks God to do away with systemic poverty, drug addiction and hopelessness, along with other...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Feb 18, 2008 | Opinion
I wish I could find just one religion without its violent wackos. I’ve long given up on the Abrahamic faiths, and Japanese Buddhism during World War II rules them out. So how about Hinduism?Sure it was a Hindu fanatic who killed Gandhi, and who knows how many...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jan 24, 2008 | Opinion
If elected president of the United States Governor Mike Huckabee plans to bring the U.S. Constitution into alignment with God:” [Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jan 15, 2008 | Opinion
“God is in His Heaven, and the hypocrites are in His church.” Now before you send me hate mail about being anti-Christian, I am only paraphrasing the results of a LifeWay Research survey on church affiliation. LifeWay is part of the Southern Baptist...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jan 2, 2008 | Opinion
At a news conference in November 2005, Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, defended Darwin’s theory of evolution over and against Intelligent Design. “The fundamentalists want to give a scientific meaning to words that had no...
